Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...company had not made formal application for higher rates to state authorities. In another case the Court allowed the New York Telephone Co. to include as part of its property entitled to a reasonable return a reserve fund built up over a number of years and invested in its plant. An unreasonably low rate, the Court said, cannot be imposed now because of profits made in the past, any more than a high rate can be justified now because of past losses...
Professor Osterhout, who is one of the foremost authorities in the country on plant life, has written several books on this subject. His best known works are "Experiments with Plants", published in 1905, and the "Nature of Life", which was printed for the first time last year. The author is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an honorary member of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, Scotland, and of numerous other scientific societies. During the first half of last year, Professor Osterhout was absent from the University, during which time he conducted...
...Janeiro, Dr. Geraldo Kuhimann, Brazilian botanist, has found that the native sapusaia plant produces an oil of one degree greater optical axis than the best Indian chalmoogra oil, heretofore the chief hope of curing leprosy...
Pilot von Orman is a quiet studious chap of 32, an Ohioan, a graduate of the Case School of Applied Science. Ballooning has made him an astute meteorologist. At the Goodyear plant in Akron, where he is employed, his advice is considered invaluable upon whether or not to go fishing...
...refrain. Thus, when the Lord Jeffrey Inn was opened with ceremony last week at Amherst, Mass., college men everywhere pricked up their ears, hearing fond echoes in the very name. The inn, of an old English design, facing the village green, was not a part of the Amherst college plant, but Amherst alumni thronged to join the celebration. President George Daniel Olds of Amherst made a speech. President Harry A. Garfield had come over from Williams College and he made another speech. Mr. George A. Plimpton, senior trustee of Amherst, exhibited his remarkable collection of Amherst memorabilia-portraits, autographs, prints...